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This is a list of notable people affiliated with Trinity College at Oxford University, England. It includes former students, current and former academics and fellows, as listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or another available source. The overwhelming maleness of this list is explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), Trinity was an all-male institution.

Former students

Academics and explorers

• Nigel Anderson
• John Aubrey FRS
• Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
• Sir Richard Burton KCMG FRGS (sent down)
• Kenneth Clark OM CH KCB FBA
• John White CBE FSA
• Vincent Cronin FRSL
• Mamoru Imura
• Miles Kington
• Wlodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
• Sir Arthur Norrington
• William Gifford Palgrave
• Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Scientists, engineers and mathematicians

• Sir John Boreham KCB
• Keith J. Laidler
• Henry Moseley
• Justin Stebbing
• Sir Harold Thompson FRS

Artists and broadcasters

• Ralph Arnold
• Laurence Binyon
• George Butterworth MC
• Justin Cartwright MBE
• Joyce Cary
• Lionel Chetwynd
• Sir John Denham
• Richard Foster
• David Green
• Basil Harwood
• Ben Judah
• Kit Lambert
• Walter Savage Landor
• William Lisle Bowles
• Thomas Lodge
• A. E. W. Mason
• Edward Powys Mathers
• James Michie
• John Middleton Murry
• Sir Terence Rattigan CBE
• William Russell
• Christopher Tolkien
• Simon Tolkien
• David Walter
• David Yates

Business

• Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO
• John Preston (1950-2017), music industry executive
• Sir William Stuttaford KBE
• Sir Peter Stothard
• Huw van Steenis
• Tunku Varadarajan

Clergy and theology

• Right Reverend Aubrey Aitken
• Reverend Canon Sidney Alexander
• John Arnold
• George Blackwell
• Reverend Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton
• Most Reverend John Gilbert
• Right Reverend Dr Rupert Hoare
• Right Reverend Dr Kenneth Kirk (Chaplain 1922–33)
• Very Reverend Robert MacCarthy
• Reverend Canon Christopher Oswald Miles
• Right Reverend James Newcome
• Saint John Henry Newman DD OC
• Reverend Canon George Rawlinson
• Right Reverend Archibald Robertson
• John Rogers
• Reverend Montague Summers

Diplomats, civil servants and colonial administrators

• Sir George Bowen GCMG
• Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO
• Sir Edward Gent KCMG DSO OBE MC
• Vere Henry Hobart, Lord Hobart
• Sir Donald MacGillivray GCMG MBE
• Albrecht von Bernstorff
• Sir Thomas Drew KCMG
• Sir Patrick Walker KCB
• Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG

Lawyers

• Major Sir Edward Atkinson KCB CBE
• Peter Birks
• Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (former Lord Chief Justice)
• Philip Seaforth James
• John Lewger, first secretary and attorney general of Maryland, United States
• John McNeill, QC, Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Military

• Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar MC
• Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard GCVO CB CBE MC
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary RAFVR
• Henry Ireton
• Lieutenant General Frank Klotz USAF
• Sarah Oakley, Royal Navy officer
• Squadron Leader Dinghy Young DFC & Bar RAFVR

Politicians

• Sir John Abdy Bt
• Sir Robert Abdy Bt FSA
• Siân Berry
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM GCVO PC FRS FBA
• Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
• Richard Corbett CBE MEP
• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG KB PC
• Anthony Crosland
• Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall
• Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford PC
• Sir Eric Errington Bt
• Edgar Graham
• David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham CVO PC FBA
• Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood Bt
• Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford
• Sir Peter Kirk
• Ben Lake MP
• Lord Kingsdown KG PC
• Norris McWhirter CBE
• Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guildford KG PC
• King Philippe of Belgium
• William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC
• Sir John Sinclair Bt
• John Somers, 1st Baron Somers PC FRS
• Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
• James Schneider
• Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort KG
• James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope PC
• Martin Stevens
• Jeremy Thorpe
• Andrew Tyrie MP

Sports people

• Andrew Comrie-Picard, X Games medalist and Hollywood stuntman
• Simon Danielli, rugby union player for Ulster and Scotland
• Constantine Louloudis, rower, bronze medalist in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold medalist in the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Bonnie St. John, medal-winning Paralympic skier
• Henry Melvin 'Dinghy' Young, RAF pilot and rower in the 1938 Boat Race

Miscellaneous

• Sir Arthur fforde GBE
• Phil Harvey, Coldplay
• Frank Luntz
• Ross McWhirter
• Tom Riordan

Journalists

• Patrick Cockburn
• Adrian Michaels
• Michael Peel

Fictional characters

Fictional former students include Jay Gatsby, the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby who attends Trinity briefly after World War I, and Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice who receives a first in PPE before World War II.

Recent books in which Trinity features prominently are:

• Cartwright, Justin (2008). This Secret Garden. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-7961-8.
• von Siemens, Carl (2010). Kleine Herren. Ein Deutscher in Oxford. Frankfurt am Main: Scherz. ISBN 978-3-502-15159-3.
• Flintoff, Ian (2015). Gatsby at Trinity. Oxford: YouCaxton-Pitchfork Production. ISBN 978-190964-469-4.

Fellows

See also: Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford

• John Michael Hammersley FRS (1920–2004), mathematician
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood FRS (1897–1967), physical chemist; Nobel laureate
• Sir Henry Stuart Jones FBA (1867–1939), classicist
• Martin Kemp (born 1942), art historian
• Ronald Knox (1888–1957), theologian
• Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), biologist; Nobel laureate
• David Lambert Lack FRS (1910–1973), evolutionary biologist
• Michael Maclagan (1914–2003), historian
• Rodney Robert Porter FRS (1917–1985), biochemist; Nobel laureate
• Sir Edwin Southern FRS (born 1938), molecular biologist
• Sir Ronald Syme FBA (1903–1989), ancient historian
• Gail Trimble (born 1982), classicist
• Thomas Warton (1728–1790), historian and poet

Presidents

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2015)

The head of Trinity College, Oxford, is titled the president.

16th century

• Thomas Slythurst (1556–1559; first president)
• Arthur Yeldard (1559–1599)
• Ralph Kettell (1599–1643)

17th century

• Hannibal Potter (1643–1648; first term)
• Robert Harris (1648–1658)
• Seth Ward (1659–1660)
• Hannibal Potter (1660–1664; second term)
• Ralph Bathurst (1664–1704)

18th century

• Thomas Sykes (1704–1705)
• William Dobson (1706–1731)
• George Huddesford (1731–1776)
• Joseph Chapman (1776–1808)

19th century

• Thomas Lee (1808–1824)
• James Ingram (1824–1850)
• Samuel William Wayte (1866–1878)
• John Percival (1879–1887)
• Henry George Woods (1887–1897)
• Henry Francis Pelham (1897–1907)

20th century

• Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (1907–1938)
• J. R. H. Weaver (1938–1954)
• Arthur Norrington (1954–1970)
• Alexander George Ogston (1970–1978)
• Anthony Quinton (1978–1987)
• John Burgh (1987–1996)
• Michael Beloff (1996–2006)

21st century

• Sir Ivor Roberts (2006–2017)
• Dame Hilary Boulding (2017–present)

References

1. Oneltd. "Trinity College – Modern Trinity". www.trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
2. "James Michie" (obituary), The Independent, 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023
3. Denselow, Robin (1 December 2017). "John Preston obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
4. Captain S. E. Oakley Royal Navy Captain Britannia Royal Naval College profile at royalnavy.mod.uk, accessed 7 November 2022

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